Attorney Jacob Grouser, representing Roxbury, and Roxbury Township Attorney Anthony M. Bucco chat during a break in a show cause hearing about Fenimore Landfill Wednesday at Superior Court in Morristown.

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The fight over how to eliminate toxic fumes from Fenimore Landfill in Roxbury moved Wednesday to the Morris County Courthouse, where a Superior Court judge denied the township's request to collect and test soil samples from wells being dug on the site by the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Mayor Jim Rilee and the township council filed a legal action last week to compel the DEP to allow them to test soil samples from than 21 new gas-extraction wells being dug at Fenimore Landfill. Those wells, in addition to nine already established on the site, are designed to collect the smelly ...